Cigarette holder

Abstract

A cigarette holder for assisting a smoker in stopping smoking has an outer tube whose rear end is provided with a mouthpiece and whose front end is provided with a metal snuffing collar. Inside this other tube is another tube that acts as a stop for a cigarette inserted into the outer tube, and that is provided with break formations such as grooves or notches so that it can be shortened. This inner tube is therefore periodically shortened so that the amount of cigarette that can be inserted or received within the holder and in back of the snuffing collar increases. Thus the amount of each cigarette that can be smoked with the holder can be decreased step-wise to allow the user to reduce the amount of each cigarette smoked. Ultimately cigarette smoking can thus be stopped.

I claim: 
     
       1. A cigarette holder comprising: an outer tube having a cylindrical inner wall of a diameter equal generally to that of a cigarette, a front end, and a rear end;   a mouthpiece at said rear end, whereby a cigarette can be inserted into said front end and smoke therefrom drawn through said mouth-piece;   an inner element in said interior extending forwardly from said rear end and having a front face forming a backward stop for a cigarette inserted into said front end, whereby a cigarette can only be inserted backwardly into said front end until engagement with said front face;   means including a succession of longitudinally spaced formations along said element for longitudinally shortening said element by breaking at said formations and thereby moving said front face backwardly, whereby when said element is shortened, more of a cigarette can be inserted into said outer tube and;   means at said front end for extinguishing a cigarette which is received in said outer tube and has burned down to said front end.   
     
     
       2. The holder defined in claim 1 wherein said element is an inner tube concentrically received in said outer tube. 
     
     
       3. The holder defined in claim 2 wherein said means at said front end is a metallic collar having an inner diameter equal substantially to the outer diameter of a cigarette. 
     
     
       4. The holder defined in claim 2 wherein said formations are reductions in cross-sectional area of said inner tube. 
     
     
       5. The holder defined in claim 4 wherein said formations are notches. 
     
     
       6. The holder defined in claim 2 wherein said mouthpiece and rear end are provided with complimentary screw-threads connecting each other together. 
     
     
       7. The holder defined in claim 2 wherein said outer tube is of a synthetic resin. 
     
     
       8. The holder defined in claim 2 wherein said inner tube is of a synthetic resin. 
     
     
       9. The holder defined in claim 2 wherein the inner and outer diameters respectively of said outer tube and inner tubes are substantially the same. 
     
     
       10. The holder defined in claim 2 wherein said formations are longitudinally equi-spaced along said inner tube. 
     
     
       11. A set of a least three cigarette holders according to claim 1 each comprising: an elongated tube having a forwardly open cigarette-receiving front end, a rear end, and internal structure forming an abutment spaced a distance from said front end for a cigarette inserted into said front end;   a mouthpiece at said rear end; and   a cigarette-snuffing ring at said front end and of an internal diameter substantially equal to the outside diameter of a standard cigarette and of a fire proof material, the distances from said front ends to the respective abutments being graduated from holder to holder of said set, whereby each holder extinguishes a cigarette fully inserted into itself when the butt length is different from that of the other holders of said set.